REPRESENTATION:
Irikefe Rupert, Esq represented SAFEGUARD HUMANITY FOUNDATION.

FOCUS OF SEMINAR
The principal organizer of the Seminar is the National Human Rights Commission with the support of its Partners like Drug Harm Reduction Network, DHRAN, etc.
It focused on frameworks for monitoring human rights in compliance with internationally acceptable standards and methodologies. It covers process indicators, outcome indicators, structural indicators, etc. These indicators cover monitoring of human rights violations, the drafting and passing of legislations.
The indicators include case monitoring which encompass the legal process undergone by an active case, relief and rehabilitation  services and other forms of interventions.
The aim of the indicators to assist government apply international standards to issues of human rights, pressure govt into adopting and implementing international standards for human rights, identify gaps between universally accepted standards for human rights and those set by domestic legislations.
Indicators for collecting human rights data. These indicators establish that there is a strong link between poverty and drug abuse.
The seminar focused on approaches to human rights monitoring to include the violations approach, progressive realization approach, e.g. the experience of Nigeria claiming to be poor and not spending on poverty alleviation priorities or promoting universal access to health, events monitoring methodology, indicators based monitoring methodology.
The seminar suggest that the events like flooding can be turned into human right issues.
The seminar examined how society fails prisoners and death row inmates and examined structural indicators like legal and institutional processes and structures of the court.
A key part of the Seminar was the review of issues affecting people who use drugs and the vetting of the key informant review guide comprising monitoring, reporting and redress of human rights issues of people who use drugs proposed by the National Human Rights Commission. A copy of the document is forwarded along with this report.
BENEFIT:
Henceforth, the National Human Rights Commission shall aggregate Drug Reporting from Associations like Lardi into its National Report.
Report Presented by Rupert Irikefe,Esq.